We really think that the question of admission to a State University should be a matter for a State to decide. We opposed Federal intervention when the attack was on segregation and we oppose Federal intervention when the attack is on forced integration, for the sake of integration. The reason is that we do not believe that the 14th Amendment was ever validly ratified, and all of these cases on either side of the battle over racial patterns are brought under the assumption that it was. (See the comments on the same in Conservative Pot-Pourri.)
On the question of race and intellectual aptitude, the answers are not quite so simplistic as the discussion, here, would suggest. While there are unqestionably differences in the overall averages of the different tested performances of many racial and ethnic groups, there is considerable variation in areas of excellence, also. Because one has an overall high I.Q., does not mean that one is a master of all mental traits; nor does the fact that one has a considerably lower overall I.Q., mean that one is necessarily deficient in all important mental traits.
There is a great deal that may be done to help the individual child, regardless of his overall makeup, utilize his own particular aptitudes in the most advantageous way. What needs to be done, first, is to get the political and social dogmatists out of education; and to staff each school, regardless of its racial character, with teachers who will really care to address the needs of the individual children in that particular school. That is what needs to be done; but we are not so foolish as to hold our breath until it is done. Meanwhile, public education becomes more and more a waste of time for children of all races.
William Flax